Ivor Gurney Society: Current Bibliography

Current Bibliography & Discography

This is a list of books, sheet music and recordings currently in print.

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Eleanor Rawling, Ivor Gurney's Gloucestershire: Exploring Poetry and Place. History Press, 2011.
Pamela Blevins, Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott: Song of Pain and Beauty. Boydell Press, 2008.
Michael Hurd, The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney. Faber & Faber, 2008. (A reprint of the first biography of Gurney, first published by Oxford University Press in 1978).

Severn & Somme and War's Embers, ed. R.K.R. Thornton. Carcanet Press, 1997.
80 Poems or So, ed. George Walter and R.K.R. Thornton. Carcanet Press, 1997.
Rewards of Wonder: Poems of London, Cotswold and France, ed. George Walter. Carcanet Press, 2000.
Best Poems and The Book of Five Makings, ed. R.K.R. Thornton. Carcanet Press, 1995.
Collected Poems, ed. P.J. Kavanagh. Fyfield Books (Carcanet Press), 2004.

Eleanor Rawling, Ivor Gurney's Gloucestershire: Exploring Poetry and Place. History Press, 2011.
Trevor Hold, Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-Composers. Boydell Press, 2005. (includes a chapter on Gurney's songs)
John Lucas, Ivor Gurney (Writers & Their Work). Northcote House, 2001.

Gurney: Songs - Susan Bickley (mezzo); Iain Burnside (piano) [Naxos, 2010]
Severn & Somme - Roderick Williams (baritone); Susie Allen (piano) [Somm Records, 2006]
Severn Meadows: Songs by Ivor Gurney - Paul Agnew (tenor); Julius Drake (piano) [Hyperion, 2001]
Ludlow and Teme (with Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge and Venables) - Andrew Kennedy (tenor); Dante Quartet; Simon Crawford-Philips [Signum Records, 2008]
Ludlow and Teme (with Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge, Warlock & Bliss - James Gilchrist (tenor); Fitzwilliam Quartet; Anna Tilbrook (piano) [Linn Records, 2007]
Gurney & Delius - Songs - Ian Partridge (tenor); Jennifer Partridge (piano) [Etcetera, 2006]
Gurney; Finzi; Ireland - Songs - Nathan Vale (tenor); Paul Plummer (piano) [Somm Records, 2007]
Western Playland & Ludlow & Teme (with Vaughan Williams) Stephen Varcoe (bar.); Adrian Thompson (tenor); Delme Quartet; Iain Burnside (piano) [Hyperion Helios, 2004]
War's Embers - Michael George (bass); Stephen Varcoe (bar.); Martyn Hill (ten.); Clifford Benson (piano) [Hyperion Helios, 2006 - a shortened release of the original double disc set]
The Dark Pastoral: Music and Poetry from World War One - Andrew Kennedy (tenor); Julius Drake (piano); Simon Russell Beale (reader) [Altara, 2008]

Elgar - Pageant of Empire, Sea Pictures / Ivor Gurney - Lights Out (orch. Jeremy Dibble) / Michael Hurd - Shore Leave - Roderick Williams (baritone) [Dutton Epoch, 2010]
English Orchestral Songs - Christopher Maltman (bar.) - includes Howells's orchestrations of By a Bierside & In Flanders and Finzi's scoring for strings of four of the Five Elizabethan Songs [Hyperion, 2000]